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Downtown Middlebury anchor property for sale
Downtown Middlebury’s Battell Block is for sale for $9.6 million.
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Buy Again Alley out, antiques in
Popular nonprofit thrift store Buy Again Alley is moving from its downtown Middlebury location. Cobweb Antiques will take its place.
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New art supply store to open Friday in Middlebury
Sparrow Art Supply, one of the emerging businesses tapped by Kick Start last summer, will mark its grand opening this Friday.
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New Middlebury Studio School space is welcoming to emerging artists
The Middlebury Studio School’s longtime quest to bring arts education back to the downtown has come to fruition, with the opening of a new branch in the Marble…
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$50,000 ‘kick start’ OK’d for downtown Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday unanimously agreed to allocate up to $50,000 in unspent economic development funds to help the Better Middlebury Partnership (BMP) fill vacant…
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Editorial: It’s a start, but is it enough?
Middlebury’s $50,000 appropriation to boost the downtown is a needed step in the right direction. The money will seed “Kick Start Middlebury,” an effort to fill downtown storefronts…
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Group seeks to boost downtown Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY — The Better Middlebury Partnership (BMP) is looking to beef up its annual budget locally and through contributions from six neighboring communities as it works to help…
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Middlebury OKs new vision for downtown
MIDDLEURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday unanimously endorsed the community’s new downtown master plan, a 138-page blueprint showing how the core village area could grow and flourish…
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Master plan charts Middlebury’s growth
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday got its first look at a proposed development playbook for the community’s downtown, a 138-page document that suggests areas where housing,…
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Middlebury’s downtown reopens
MIDDLEBURY — More than four years of planning, dozens of often contentious meetings, a 10-week burst of around-the-clock construction and $72 million in state and federal funding all…
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Letter to the editor: ‘Gutting it out’ was ill-put
While I appreciate the Independent’s effort to highlight the grit on display by downtown Middlebury businesses in John Flowers’s Aug. 6 article, “Middlebury shops tough it out,” I take exception…
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Middlebury shops tough it out
MIDDLEBURY — Downtown Middlebury is taking some uppercuts during its summer-long battle with a once-in-a-lifetime construction project. But those on the front lines — the downtown merchants, residents…
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Citizens help reimagine downtown Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY — A “pocket neighborhood” surrounding the former St. Mary’s School off Shannon Street and a reimagined economic development initiative off Bakery Lane are just two concepts for…
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BMP seeks donations to boost downtown Midd activities
MIDDLEBURY — For the first time in its history, the Better Middlebury Partnership (BMP) is asking for out-of-town donations to help subsidize the special holiday and recreational events…
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Downtown Middlebury rail project hits Main St.
MIDDLEBURY — Both pedestrian and vehicular traffic in downtown Middlebury was slower than usual this week, as work on the $72 million rail bridges replacement project jumped from…
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Vergennes Farmers Market move boosts sales
VERGENNES — Loaves of bread, croissants and pastry were moving steadily off Good Companion Bakery’s table not far from the monument on the Vergennes City Green this past…